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SEND HELP – Danny Elfman
Original Review by Jonathan Broxton
It’s probably a universal experience that everyone has dealt with at some point in their lives: a terrible boss. Maybe they are a micromanager. Maybe they take credit for others’ work. Maybe they are just jerks – misogynistic, sexist, or simply bullies who revel in public humiliation, criticizing or mocking employees in front of others. In Send Help, star Rachel McAdams has to put up with all these things and more from her boss, played by Dylan O’Brien, before she is able to get revenge in the most surprising – and violent – of ways. McAdams plays Linda Liddle, a corporate strategist who is constantly belittled by her male colleagues and denied the professional respect she believes she deserves. When a company plane crashes on the way to an international business trip, she and her smug, chauvinistic boss Bradley Preston are the only survivors, washing ashore on a desert island. Stranded together, their uneasy alliance soon turns into a disturbing battle of wills in which Linda’s survival instincts begin to blur into something far darker. Read more…

